Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The Good-Morrow

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then,
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

And now good morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown:
Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp North, without declining West?
Whatever dies was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.

-John Donne

5 comments:

Louise said...

Whoa- THat's amazing, Meg. I had no idea you could write like that.

Thomas Peters said...

louise makes a good point. I mean - "John Donne"? I KNOW you can think of a better pen name than that...

Meghan said...

Errr, yeah.

Brigid said...

LOL

J said...

Hay Meg,
Go into your blogger - edit user profile - photo URL and copy this into it

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4119/1463/320/Hay%20Seed%20Balarina.jpg

Your welcome.

The Crow out.